Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of eviscerating.
- n. In ophthalmol., removal of the internal parts of the eyeball, the sclerotic coat being left.
Wiktionary
- n. A disemboweling; the removal of viscera
- n. A vigorous verbal assault
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. A disemboweling.
WordNet 3.0
- n. surgical removal of an organ (or the contents of an organ) from a patient
- n. the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude
- n. altering something (as a legislative act or a statement) in such a manner as to reduce its value
Examples
“Clearly, when evisceration is on the agenda, Obama's DOJ is able to find the right hyena to do it.”
“As Chen and DeStefano demonstrated with their 839-word evisceration, the shortcomings of the Lancet paper went far beyond the limitations of the way its data had been collected.”
“I'm going to exercise all my self-restraint to stop myself turning this over-by-over into a 10,000 word evisceration of First Great Western trains, who in the last six hours have managed to sap out all the festive cheer I've built up over the last four days like a starving mongrel sucking marrow from an old bone.”
The Guardian: The Ashes 2010: Australia v England – day three live! | Andy Bull and Rob Smyth
“The staffers 'workload had been cut dramatically because of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's "evisceration" of Iraq's top anti-corruption office, he said.”
“Rumsfeld's press office had put together a joke video for the occasion, built around the "evisceration" clip.”
“ He refers to the pretty student who asked him if the evisceration was his case.”
““Now you can unzip him and see if you really do like evisceration.””
“But the real emotional and physical work of slaughtering an animal comes from the skinning, evisceration, and breaking down of a still-warm carcass into recognizable cuts, and removing the organs for later use.”
The Huffington Post: Laurel Miller: Why Mark Zuckerberg's Meat Challenge Is Full of Bull
“Indeed, those of us who thought that it couldn't get any worse for Labour after their electoral evisceration in May were a bit hasty in our rush to pass judgment.”
The Guardian: Come on, someone must want to lead Labour | Kevin McKenna
“But on Monday night, a vanity card appeared at the end of "Mike & Molly" written in the style of Mr. Sheen's rants, including one line that reads "This explains the paradox of our culture, which celebrates the ego while simultaneously promoting its evisceration with drugs and alcohol.”
The Wall Street Journal: CBS Hopes 'Men' Will Eventually Return to Air
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gangerh Mr Wolff's scalding to death hadn't been pretty, and Wee Willie Winkie's evisceration wasn't exactly Sunday lunch conversation.
The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde. Sep 2, 2008